CVE-2008-1434 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2008-1434

Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Word in Office 2000 and XP...

Vulnerability Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Word in Office 2000 and XP SP3, 2003 SP2 and SP3, and 2007 Office System SP1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an HTML document with a large number of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) selectors, related to a "memory handling error" that triggers memory corruption.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

office, office compatibility pack for word excel ppt 2007, word viewer
Vulnerable Versions:
2000, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2007_sp1, 2008, xp

Timeline

Official Publish: May 13th, 2008
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.